Sentences with phrase «created by the local government»

These were created by the Local Government Act 2000 at a time when Tony Blair and those around him hoped to centralise local government decision - making in elected mayors, strong leaders and cabinets, and powerful chief officers who they could deal with from Whitehall.

Down - Payment Assistance for Home Loans — Why not get help from new grants created by local government programs set up to stimulate local markets and homeownership?

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Some zeroed in on the cost, calling it a «drone tax,» while others argued that local and state governments might complicate matters by creating their own regulations.

He went on to say that the agency, created under the Dodd - Frank financial overhaul, is run by «essentially a one - person dictator» and added he had «probably had more complaints about the CFPB in my office, from small local banks and credit agencies, than every other government agency put together.»

Some believe that the Chinese financial system, and perhaps the shadow banking system more specifically, took a number of wrong steps, compounded by the lack of discipline among local governments, and created a debt problem.

By shedding 200,000 jobs, local governments would be eliminating positions created between 2009 and mid-2010 to counter the recession, AFI's Balina said.

The TPP's controversial ISDS rules will limit government powers to regulate in the public interest, including by supporting industries that create good local jobs, and protecting the environment.

were created by Public Act 096 ‐ 0820 effective November 18, 2009 to provide grants to be disbursed by the DNR to eligible local governments for park and recreation unit construction projects.

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Recognizing that reducing State mandates is critical to helping local governments lower their property tax rates, Governor Cuomo created the Mandate Relief Redesign Team by Executive Order.

• Providing Mandate Relief: Governor Cuomo issued an Executive Order creating the «Mandate Relief Redesign Team» («Team») to review unfunded and underfunded mandates imposed by the New York State government on school districts, local governments, and other local taxing districts.

In their recent party political broadcast Nick Clegg argued that «Liberal Democrats are campaigning to make your lives better» by working in local communities to «fix your roads, or protect your local health services», or in government to fix the economy, cut taxes and create more apprenticeships.

Providing Mandate Relief: Governor Cuomo today issued an Executive Order creating The «Mandate Relief Redesign Team» («Team») to review unfunded and underfunded mandates imposed by the New York State government on school districts, local governments, and other local taxing districts.

Our organization has and will continue to advocate for the New York State government to pass a comprehensive bill that will protect both the athletes and the local economy, as well as the integrity of the sport as a whole by creating a structure for the oversight of amateur MMA similar to that of USA boxing.

Budget Director Bob Megna fired back by saying that the high costs are definitely creating a crisis for local governments.

Consequently, many of the local municipalities in Ulster County requested that the Ulster County government assume the responsibility for solid waste management, and the Agency was created by the New York State Legislature pursuant to Chapter 936 of the Public Authorities Law approved December of 1986.

«The property tax remains the most burdensome tax in New York and by challenging local governments to collaborate and create a plan to streamline operations for voter approval, this game - changing initiative will empower communities, cut costs, and reduce property taxes on Long Island and across New York,» Cuomo said.

«These reforms will create anxiety amongst communities who have been promised more local influence by this government - not less.»

Tenney has been a vocal opponent of the agreements struck by the state, local governments and the Oneida Indian Nation that created exclusivity clauses in exchange for the settlement of long - standing land claims as well as revenue sharing agreements.

Assembly Bill 2280, by Assemblyman Luis Alejo, D - Salinas, would give local governments the power to create a «Community Revitalization and Investment Authority in a disadvantaged community to fund specified activities.»

Towns, cities, counties and other local governments will see another year of sharply rising pension costs to make up for the previous shortfalls created by the recession.

The law creates more transparency in local government by holding all county elected officials to a high standard of conduct and enforces stricter penalties for those who do not abide.

Cuomo's veto message on Friday said the bill would create $ 57 million in «near - term commitments» for local governments by failing to establish a state funding stream for the added pension time.

But DiNapoli told firefighters that once they get over the gap created by the 2008 crash, pension payments from local governments should even out.

The mandate relief team, also created via executive order, is tasked with reviewing existing unfunded and underfunded mandates imposed by state government on school districts, local governments, and other local taxing districts.

He has focused his efforts on saving taxpayer dollars through Government Reform — boosting Economic Development to create local and lasting Suffolk County jobs — improving Long Island's Water Quality to protect the region's water supply — and enhancing the Quality of Life of Suffolk residents by improving public safety and investing in County parks and roads.

Cuomo only asking the people to support the cap without any mention of mandate relief is the hamburger bun without the burger and simply fuels the opposition's (they say mandate relief before tax cap) claim that tax cap alone is a big - government scheme to take power away from and defund local towns and school districts and increase the power of the larger state government which created the property tax problem in the first place by passing the mandates which are the biggest property tax drivers and now refuses to change those mandates.

AB229, by Assemblyman John Perez, D - Los Angeles, allows local governments to create Infrastructure and Revitalization Financing Districts to revive old military bases.

Mahoney has been a proponent of the most ambitious Consensus idea, to create a new metropolitan government, a proposal that has been widely attacked by other local officials.

Legislators rejected this change during the first round of budget negotiations, with the Assembly creating a credit based on income (and not tied to local spending) and the State Senate embracing a simpler but less onerous plan advanced by groups representing cities, towns, counties, school boards and villages to give the «freeze» check back to the local government to invest as it sees fit.

Gidado was among the 68 elected Chairmen announced by the Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission (OYSIEC), after scoring the highest votes in the election conducted in all the 610 wards, 33 Local Government Areas (LGAs) and the 35 newly created Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) on Saturday.

The local «shared services panel» required by the new law, which must include representatives from each town, village and city, is unlikely to approve the Consensus commission proposal to create a new government to run Syracuse and Onondaga County.

Justice John Okoro, who read the lead judgment of the seven - man panel, also held that the Court of Appeal was wrong to compel INEC to conduct the 2012 governorship election in 10 wards created in the Bakassi Local Government Area by the Cross River State Government.

«By bringing together ideas from local government and community leaders with state resources, we are giving these councils the tools to create jobs and drive economic activity in their communities for generations to come.

But in February 2005, Microsoft, the Italian government, the local government, and the University of Trento decided to push the collaboration one step further by creating a joint venture: the Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology.

Some of these areas were created and are managed wholly by local communities, whereas others are managed by governments in cooperation with locals.

People were very worried that for example, E. coli would get into people's systems and it would create diabetic comas because it would be churning out insulin inside of our guts, and so on; and actually genetic engineering was banned in Cambridge Massachusetts by the local government because of these fears.

Australia has created an adaptation program to «help Australians better understand climate change, manage risks, and take advantage of potential opportunities;» In Nigeria, state and local governments are developing action plans for high - risk urban areas, while the federal government is seeking to expand forests by reducing deforestation and wood fuel demand; in Mali, significant efforts are being made to conserve water resources, as well as create usable mechanisms to track the development of climate change.

Community Support Can Help Integrate Immigrants New York Times, 9/12/16 «Our policymakers have created a problem that requires an all - hands - on - deck approach, by state and local governments as well as by local foundations and charitable organizations.»

New Schools There are two ways of creating new schools: either by providers applying to the Department for Education (DfE) under the free school programme (which has become the government's main tool for tackling the school place shortage), or by a local authority inviting bids from providers as part of a «new provision».

The federal government has a critical investment role to play in 1) supporting the replication and scale - up of the best providers through its grant programs; 2) improving access to low - cost public facilities for charter schools through its own funds and by leveraging existing public - school space; 3) pushing states and local districts toward more equitable funding systems for all public school students, including those in charter schools; and 4) supporting efforts to create early - stage, innovative, and scalable models that incorporate greater uses of learning technology.

Although the federal government helped create the policy framework, its ultimate impact will be determined by thousands of implementation and policy decisions at the state and local level.

Successful initiatives have been created by organizations as varied as school districts, United Ways, universities, funders, local governments, and other community - based organizations.

That's the claim of state lawmakers who say the problem lies in Tax Increment Finance (TIF) districts, a mechanism that allows local governments to use tax revenues created by increasing property values in the districts to encourage development.

The Montcalm Area Intermediate School District follows policies and bylaws created by the MAISD Board of Education based on rules and regulations provided by the Federal Government, State of Michigan, and local governments.

He tailored this local government practice to the education sector by creating performance dashboards for central office departments and by facilitating weekly performance meetings between department chiefs and the DCPS chancellor.

There has been strong opposition to the all - academy plan from local government - and this has prompted claims that the government might compromise by allowing local authorities to create their own academy trusts.

The funding announced today will provide a further boost to the government's drive to help create over 600,000 extra places by 2021, which will generate additional capacity to meet local demand.

The new bill gives control back to state and local governments by allowing them to create their own school accountability and teacher evaluation systems so as to provide greater flexibility in deciding how much weight test scores hold as a means of performance measures and teacher qualification.

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